Stanley Kubrick | Statesmen

Hollywood Studio have been always been too powerful, so much so they would pressurize, directors to change script, change actors and sometimes make the whole film unrecognizably different from what it was initially meant to be.

Stanley Kubrick, is one of the very few directors (or may be the only one) who managed to keep Hollywood studios away from interfering in films scripts. So much so that shooting his last film in 1990 ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ studio people were not shown the movie until it was released. What would have this man done to command such power? Well his earlier works were so iconic that he could make films in his own terms.

Check out some of his works

Full Metal Jacket (Genre: War) – Considered as completely different from all war films made at that time.

Shining (Genre: Horror)- Considered one of the scariest Horror films made. Many of technique devised were

Clockwork Orange (Sci-Fi Crime Drama)- Remembered for its gross depiction of violence. What made it notorious was the fact that

2001: A Space Odyssey (Sci-Fi)- Considered to be THE BEST science fiction film ever made. Not your Michael Bay kind of science fiction. A movie that starts with the time human were apes, and ends with  next stage of human evolution (and in the first viewing hardly makes any sense).

Etc..

His films rarely repeated genres, and each of his film is considered a master piece in its genre. But he was a difficult man to deal with. He mostly had creative differences and thus had many fallouts with his collaborators.

Most of his films were adaptations from books. But his adaptations were according to his whims and sometimes were quite removed from original books. Thus rarely did the authors of originals endorsed the adapted film.

One more distinction his films had that almost all of his films were regarded classic much after their release. May be because he was ahead of his time. He has been inspiration for future generations of directors. His lesser known film ‘The Killing’ was remade as ‘Reservoir Dogs’ as debut film by noted director Quentin Tarantino.

Written by – Ali Naqvi